WEBVTT <"EVERY SATURDAY THIS MIRACLE LEAGUE FIELD IS FULL OF FUN, BUTTHERE'S ONE PLAYER WHO'S HARD TOMISS."> <0581, 16:47"WOO!"> Matt Cowie has a story that you have to hear to believe. 24 years ago, Matt's mother gave birth to his twin sister, not knowing she was STILL pregnantwith Matt.<"MATT WAS A TWIN AND HIS SISTERPASSED AWAY WHEN SHE WAS TENDAYS OLD AND HE SURVIVED."> His family was told time againthat he wouldn't survive"twin-twin transfusionsyndrome." A rare condition when twins share a placenta,causing blood to flow unevenlybetween the babies. <"HE'S HAD 21 BRAIN SURGERIES. HE HAD OPEN HEARTSURGERY WHEN HE WAS FOUR DAYS OLD. THEY TOLD US HE WOULDN'T SURVIVE THAT SURGERY."> But, he did. And after hisfather died - Matt'sgrandparents raised him.<"ARE YOU GONNA PLAY BASEBALL TODAY...YA!"> Matt has played inthe Miracle League since it started up in Des Moines 10 years ago.<0604, 23:24"WOO!"> <0598, 21:24 "NICE!"> <0581,17:35 "YA!"> That's when he re-connected with a familiarface. <"HAHAHA! MATT WAS AL'S VERYFIRST MAKE A WISH CHILD.">Miracle League announcer, AlKnudsen, or "headphones..." <"HI HEADPHONES!"><"I REMEMBER HIS GRANDMA SAYING HE WASN'T EXPECTED TO MAKE IT AND HERE IT IS ALMOST TWENTYYEARS LATER AND HE'S THRIVING.">They want Matt's story to betold. <"LET ME HELP YOU! I GOT IT!THANKS BUDDY."> Because the boy who was once pegged as "too damaged to survive..."<MATT CHEERING ON OTHER TEAM> ...Is overcoming every obstacle in his way. <"WE ARE JUST VERY PROUD THAT HEIS OURS."> <<BUTT TOGETHER>><"ALL WE WANT FOR HIM IS TO BEHAPPY AND OBVIOUSLY HE IS."><"GOOD SWING BUDDY! GOOD HIT!"> In Des Moines Tommie Clark KCCI 8 News Iowa's News Leader.